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Did Anyone Else Get 33% More Likely To Buy An iPhone Yesterday?
Okay, so y’all did see the coverage of Apple’s little shindig yesterday where they announced New iPod Nanos with screen rezzes equivalent to the iPod Video iPod “Classics” featuring 80GB and 160(!)GB capacities The friggin’ iPod “Touch”, otherwise known as “iPhone Without The Phone Part” And a $200 drop on the iPhone’s previously astronomical pricetag…
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Laser Light Shows Are For Pansies
Real men don’t do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers’ “underground theme”:
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A Bountiful Link-Filled Catch-Up
I am fully cognizant of my delinquent blogging — apologies all around. I’ve been in full recovery mode since taking the redeye from SFO to PHL on Friday night. Short observations on that flight? Sucked like a brand-new Dyson 07 with the full pet hair kit. Stupid US Airways. In exchange for my previous silence,…
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[Insert Mechanical Onomatopoeia Here]
Have you seen the new Transformers “exclusive” trailer over on Yahoo! Movies yet? Proceed there posthaste or imperil your Official Geek Status and prepare to turn in your membership card, slide rule and protractor. Sweet.
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First-Rate Geeky Command Line Head-Smackage
WARNING: GEEKY CONTENT AHEAD If you have no desire to read about login shells, Linux, source code management or other similarly geeky content, you’d best be skipping this one. -ed. Have you ever allowed a nuisance to go on for literally years simply because you couldn’t be bothered to do enough research to effectively nip…
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The Web Is Awash In Wiki-Related Geekery
To wit: Exhibit A: Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki, possibly one of the geekiest Wikis out there. Exhibit B: Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala, a piece which should make old-school readers’ hearts jump for referential joy. It begins: Mr. and Mrs. Brown had one child. They called him Leroy, and so…
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Required Daily Viewing
First off, a love song, sung by geeks, gone horribly, horribly awry: Next up, one of the absolute high points in Western action cinema, the car chase sequence from Bullitt: From Web 0 to Web 2.0 in five minutes’ time: Lastly, rock out to the oxymoronic “Heck No! (I’ll Never Listen To Techno)”:
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I Bow Before The Prowess Of My Fellow Geeks
What to do when you know that the Google Maps/Earth satellite is going to make an overflight of your area at a specific time? Why, create renditions of Space Invaders and what looks like a Cylon Raider big enough for the sat. to pick up. That there takes talent, skill, ingenuity and a wanton disregard…
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Stephenson’s Work On The Small Screen? Hooray! Diamond Age! Eh. George Clooney! …Wha?
Glenn Reynolds pointed out the following highly interesting story over at SciFi.com today: Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic…
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Am I The Only One Affected By The Effects Of Grammar?
A colleague was drafting a memo to send out company-wide today and forwarded it to me for review. The copy was mostly good, although he referenced several “servers that will be effected by ongoing work” or somesuch. I replied that, while the memo itself was good, I had a grammatical bone to pick: the servers…